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...LEON PANETTA Wasn't the President's chief of staff going to put an end to nomination bungling...
...least a month. White House officials, meanwhile, made it clear that they were relishing the thought of Clinton vetoing any measure perceived as diluting crime fighting efforts. "We would not be disappointed if that was one of the first vetoes we cast," White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta told the Associated Press...
...Council, Rubin knew little about lobbying Capitol Hill. Although Treasury had prepared a state-by-state analysis of how a Mexican meltdown would affect U.S. employment, for example, most members of Congress never learned of its existence. Moreover, Clinton and top aides like White House chief of staff Leon Panetta were focused on the President's Jan. 24 State of the Union message and failed to give Rubin much support...
...acknowledge that it would have to go it alone. ``The Administration relied on [House Speaker] Newt Gingrich's saying he was for it,'' says a Democratic congressional leader, ``and they relied on him for everything after that.'' But when neither Gingrich nor anyone else could deliver, Clinton, Rubin and Panetta huddled in Panetta's White House office at 11:30 p.m. to complete work on the executive action. Clinton arrived from a dinner of the National Governors Association still dressed in a tuxedo and promptly helped himself to the Domino's pepperoni-and-mushroom pizza that Panetta and Rubin...
...tried to interfere with the federal regulatory process on behalf of pharmaceutical companies that contributed to the Progress and Freedom Foundation, the Associated Press reports. The foundation has close ties to Gingrich, supporting a televised college course he teaches. Last September, Gingrich wrote White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, insisting that FDA should give prompt approval to a home AIDS test made by Direct Access Diagnostics, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. Both Direct Access Diagnostics and Johnson & Johnson are listed as contributors to the foundation. The amounts or dates of the contributions weren't disclosed by the foundation...